gaudy

Meaning

Adj

1. Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
2. (obsolete) Fun; merry; festive.

Noun

One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

Noun

A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.

Synonyms

showy

flashy

garish

tawdry

loud

ostentatious

tacky

jazzy

meretricious

gorgeous

gay

gimcrack

ornate

show off

flash

brassy

colorful

flamboyant

pompous

pretentious

flaunt

florid

colourful

sporty

brilliant

strut

dazzling

tatty

cheap

trashy

fancy

variegated

varicoloured

violent

vivid

merry-making

wrapped in cheap flattery

Korean

frippish

baroque

blazing

bright

chorea

conceited

excessive

festival

flagrant

flowery

glaring

harsh

joy

😂

jubilee

motley

nefarious

outstanding

particolored

proud

raffish

rakish

rejoicing

ritzy

rococo

show

spotted

striking

swanky

tinsel

tinselly

ugly

varicolored

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡɔː.di/

Etymology

From Middle English gaudi, from Old French gaudie, from Medieval Latin gaudia. equivalent to gaud (“ornament, trinket”) + -y.
Alternatively, from Middle English gaudi, gawdy (“yellowish”), from Old French gaude, galde (“weld (the plant)”), from Frankish *walda, from Proto-Germanic *walþō, *walþijō, akin to Old English *weald, *wielde (>Middle English welde, wolde and Anglo-Latin walda (“alum”)), Middle Low German wolde, Middle Dutch woude. More at English weld.
A common claim that the word derives from Antoni Gaudí, designer of Barcelona's Sagrada Família Basilica, is incorrect: the word was in use centuries before Gaudí was born.